A crowd stands in front of the shattered Bath Consolidated School in Bath Township, Mich., after the 1927 Bath School disaster — still the deadliest attack on a U.S. school.
On May 18, 1927, school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe detonated explosives he had planted under the building. As rescuers rushed in, another explosion near the school added to the toll. Histories commonly report 45 deaths (including Kehoe) and 58 people injured, though the handwritten note on this photo states “44 were killed and 43 injured.”
This image captures the grim, urgent work that followed: neighbors watching, waiting and searching the wreckage for survivors.
What do you know or remember about the Bath School disaster or the memorial park that stands there today?
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